Scotland

[saltun]

Not a large seen North of the border, but there are a few die hards.

There are about 5 of us based in Edinburgh who are out skating as much as the weather lets us. We travel all over Scotland looking for decent hills to skate, more recently for bombing, but we're more than happy sliding or carving about. We've got hill you could hit 50mph on and also loads of others where you can cruise at about 35mph without having to worry about traffic. Recently we've just found an absolute cracker, in fact two cracking hills in Edinburgh City centre. Super smooth, wide and just under a mile lone where you could easily hit 50mph if you wanted, but its an amazingly wide and great for carving / sliding.

Glasgow have there own scene, and are a bit fancy by having their own website longboardglasgow.com which we hijack now and again.

Further North all they way up to Orkney you'll find a lonesome soul flying aboot doing his thing too.

If you're ever North of the border and want to meet up for a skate get in touch. We're always about for a spin!

[saltun]

YouTube - Downhill Skateboarding - TheTemple...

this is a little spot about an hour from Edinburgh, three sections to it. The start has a steep descent onto a mellower section, if you keep your tuck you should be hitting about 30mph on this slower part. Once you hit the bend you start to gain speed on the final straight. If the winds right you can hit 40 easily, but the main thing here is, the surface. Its a sweet wee road!

[gavmck]

Eyy boyos lookin good! Hope you lot are on Longboard-Sessions.co.uk - so much fun you'll sh*t yourself fueling the UK scene! woop woop!

[Frankyjobob]

Heeeyyyy...
I read about you guys in CW. In Search of MacStoke, I believe?

[saltun]

Heeeyyyy...
I read about you guys in CW. In Search of MacStoke, I believe?

Yea that was Neil, Cali and myself.

Thats how we met Dave ( from Orkney ) he posted a thread on a website looking for fellow longboarders from Scotland, as he was writing an article in Concrete Wave. RESULT !!!! Something to show the grandkids in the future!

We have some absolutely cracking hills in and around Edinburgh, if you're ever North of the Border / in the UK get in touch.

[saltun]

Yea that was Neil, Cali and myself.

Thats how we met Dave ( from Orkney ) he posted a thread on a website looking for fellow longboarders from Scotland, as he was writing an article in Concrete Wave. RESULT !!!! Something to show the grandkids in the future!

We have some absolutely cracking hills in and around Edinburgh, if you're ever North of the Border / in the UK get in touch.

A few other spots we've recently found!!